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Donald Trump said the bigger problem for the US than foreign influence or migrants is “the enemy from within” whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.
The former president told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News‘ Sunday Morning Futures that they — US citizens — “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.
On Saturday evening, Trump held a rally at Coachella in California where an armed man with a fake pass was apprehended by police before the event.
The California rally came hours after Kamala Harris released her medical information in a challenge to Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in light of recent long, rambling, and at times incoherent speeches, which the vice president invited people to watch to make up their own minds about the mental state of the former president.
Harris is on the campaign trail in the key battleground of North Carolina where she attended a church service before holding a rally in the city of Greenville.
New national polls show either a deadlocked race or a tightening of the Democrat’s narrow lead.
Watch: Trump says he’ll let us know when he’s cognitively impaired and compares himself to Churchill
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 23:15
Friend of armed man apprehended at Coachella rally says ‘There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump’
Mindy Robertson, the business partner and good friend of Vem Miller, the armed man apprehended at Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, says there is no way he was there with the intention of killing the former president.
She writes on X: “The man they just arrested for supposedly ‘trying to kill’ Trump in Coachella….is my good friend and business partner for America Happens, Vem Miller.
“Vem had just exposed a huge Deep State cover-up involving the Feds and the Bundy Ranch scandal. So I firmly believe this is 100% some kind of set-up in retribution for exposing it. That, or Trump’s security team is a bunch of dipshits trying to make up for how badly they failed in Pennsylvania with any kind of “win” they can get, fake or not.
“There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump, he’s worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him.”
Read the rest of her post below:
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:58
Watch: Trump says polls only wrong when they’re bad for him
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:45
Bill Clinton joins campaign trail in Harris-Walz camo hat
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:40
Trump bizarrely claims US known around the world as ‘occupied country’
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:35
Musk now ‘owns’ Trump says former president’s niece: ‘He’s always been up for sale’
“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” Mary Trump wrote in a Substack post on Saturday.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:30
Meanwhile, in Prescott Valley, Arizona…
Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail after last night’s Coachella rally, this time in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
Recent polling has the former president ahead in the state but there are still three weeks until election day.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:23
Harris takes to stage in Greenville after meeting with Black farmers
Kamala Harris tells the crowd at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville: “I’m gonna tell you, it’s gonna be a tight race. Until the very end. And we are running as the underdog. So we have some hard work ahead of us … [but] with your help in 23 days, we will win.”
The vice president also gets in a dig at Donald Trump: “Why does his staff want him to hide away? One must question — are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America? Is that what’s going on?”
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 21:48
Armed man arrested outside Trump rally as sheriff says possible ‘assassination attempt’ thwarted
Suspect is a registered Republican who said he is part of a right-wing anti-government group, and that the Las Vegas man considers himself a “sovereign citizen” beyond the reach of government control.
This is a developing story…
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 21:37
Trump-Harris deadlocked nationally in new polls, while key states tilt Republican
But the race may be slipping away from her in swing states as her “honeymoon” period following a late entry in the race ends, and her campaign’s messaging strategy pivots away from the aggressive push against MAGA Republicans’ views on women and the attacks on Trump’s running mate, JD Vance.
John Bowden has the details.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 21:30
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